New Active Substance Launches Plummet
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
The number of new active substances (NASs) launched in 2015 fell by nearly a third compared with the previous year. But there is no need for despair - beating 2014's record-breaking year of 63 NAS launches was always going to be a tall order, and 2015's tally actually came in at a very respectable 46.